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38p MARCH 18-311982 Volume 4 Number 6 l~!!lii!I ALB109 ., 5 SONGS 0 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY ) VISAGE 2 s ...,,,P...,..AR=TY="'""'=F=EA.,....,,R'""S--:TW=o,-------------- £ ASSOCIATES 4 .cg DEUTSCHER GIRLS 'i ADAM AND THE ANTS 9 ] HARDEN MY HEART .g QUARTERRASH 9 i ..,:s""'TA;;.;;Rc.;.,;S=o;;.;.;;N..:;;;S':':'Tc"'EV:....l.,...E------------~ 1: STARSOUND 11 g READ 'EM AND WEEP ~ MEATLOAF 21 ;. HOLLYWOOD ~ THIN UZZV 21 ii, YOUR HONOUR 2 PLUTO 35 ;; LAYLA li DEREK AND THE DOMINOS 35 -~ JUST AN ILLUSION ; IMAGINATION 37 f CLASSIC 8 ADRIAN GURVln 40 '& GHOSTS e JAPAN 41 € WATERLOO SUNSET ~ THEKINKS 45 i SEE THOSE EYES E ALTERED IMAGES 49 ~ 0 5 FEATURES ~- ASSOCIATES: TEA PARTY 4/5 ~ THE MIDGE URE STORY 13/14/15 i.. IRON MAIDEN: TALES FROM THE CRYPT 22/23 .:: SHOTS FROM THE COTS: THE STARS AS INFANTS 42/43 > ~ ALTERED IMAGES: THE FIVE FACES OF 46/47/48 !!! C 1: C, COLOUR ~ MIDGE URE 15 ; JOHN TAYLOR 32 THE FIRST 5000 ALBUMS g' ,-;;.Kl=M'-=WIL=D=-E-------------~ 33"'""' COME WITH ORANGE JUICE 60 i., FREE CASSETTE VERSION f PLUS- 3 THE PICTURES: NIGHT OUT WITH THE STARS 7 i Bl'n: TIGHT FIT. WIN A GOLD DISC, BOWWOWWOW, AVAILABLE FROM j SECRET POLICEMAN'S OTHER BALL & MORE 16/17 :g PIECES: TERRY HALL SIOBHAN BANANARAMA, CHARTS ~ & MORE 18 C tit i REVIEWS: VISAGE, THE JAM, XTC, JAPAN & MORE 25/27 AND ALL OTHER ~ GET SMART!: THIS IS THE AGE OF THE BRAIN 29 ~ COMPETITION: COMBINATION TV/RADIO/CASSITTE PLUS GOOD RECORD SHOPS '.i AUTOGRAPHED VISAGE ALBUMS TO BE WON 30 'i STAR TEASER 36 SEE THE dB's ~ COMPmTION: YOUR CHANCE TO GET PUBLISHED 39 MAIICH g_ CROSSWORD 39 ! RSVP: STAMP DUTY 51 17 - Cardiff, Top Rink C ~~~~~~-----------~ 11 - Nottingh1111, Roe• City 'i;; LETTERS 53/54 19 - Shllffi1ld, University f BADGE TOKEN 55 20 - Ntwc111lt, University i BARRY: THE DIARY OF A HALF-WIT 57 NIGHTSOUT: BAUHAUS, BUZZZ PLUS DATES 58/59 ____COVER , ALTERED IMAGES BY ERIC WATSON--"-~ BILLY MACKENZIE (LEFT) AND ALAN RANKINE 5 THE JAM A COLLAGE OF WORDS & SOUNDS Better stop dreaming of the quiet life .. I need something solid in mine ... Don't live up to your given roles, H Move together make your heart feel better.. Imagine if tomorrow the workers went on strike . .. Who would make their profits, who would build their bombs ... E Stop revelling in reiection . .. Intelligence should be our first weapon . There's gotta be more to this old life than this ... G Scrimping and saving and crossing off lists ... Why are you frightened,can 't you see that it's your... One day you'll walk right out of this life and then you'll win,etc I The sort of flavour that gets right up thek nose ... MOVE I MOVE I WE GOT THE GIFT OF LIFE I F T The L.P. Produced by Peter Wilson 6 And there was a a partying and a popping of flashbulbs down at the Daily Mirror/Radio One/Nationwide Rock And Pop Awards (as seen on TV). The place was sardined with celebs; the famous. the talented, the beautiful, Dave Lee Travis . Fizzy drinks flowed, cheese dip went down by the tubload, and Engraved Discs were pressed into many a deserving palm. Best Album - " Dare", Best Single - "Vienna" , Most Outstanding Musical Personality-Adam, Best Female Vocalist-Toyah, Best Male Vocalist- Shakin' Stevens, and they kept on coming. Our cameras, meanwhile, took a penetrating peek at some of the familiar faces . Haze treats Kim and Toyah to an extract from her latest single. Obviously a crowd-pleaser. Steve Strange: they call him "the posing doughnut" The League's Susanne Sutey and Mike "Bucks Fizz" Nolan. Are they really " pair-bonded" or have they simply got their ear-rings in a tangle? Sad to say, it's Le Bon (left) prepares to do a runner as Rhodes and Basil break the former. into song. 7 k-LW r,u/' ~ ~ 7h~ /Z:' 1/iJ EPCA2198 8 Dari y wildes rthoughtl B it's time to let y I'm gonna harden my h I'm gonna swallow my I'm gonna tum and leave All of my life I've been w~aiiillie rain I've been waiting fo a That never eve It feels so close but always i~ Darling in your wildest dreams You never had a clue But it's time you got the news I'm gonna harden my heart m a-i.wa low my tears I'm gonna tlll'ft eave you here Duling in my ildest dreams I never t • ught I'd go But it's tim to let you know I'm harden my heart I'm swallow my tears rm go n and leave you here fm harden my h I'm a swallow m I'm a harden m l'nt gonna swallo heart, I'm g a heart, I'm im gonna s I'm gonna Words 9 l63 OXfOROST. (NEXT TO BOND ST. TUBE) TEL: 6291240. BEDFORD:SILVER ST.TEL 211354. BIRHINGHAH:NEWST. TEL: 643 7029.BOLTON: EXCHANGE STREET TEL: 394934 BRADFORD: CHEI\PSIOETEL , 28882. 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TEL: 6617◄ SUNDERLAND: HIGH STREET WEST TEL 411.7 SUTTON : HIGH ST. TEL; 642008◄. SWANSEA: THE QUADRANT CENTRE TEL: 462091 WOLVERHAMPTON: THE GALLERY, MANDER SQUAM TEL )9'71 AU offers subject to e.valls.bll!ty. 10 11 / - THE NEW SINGLE - PRODUCED BY STEVE LILLYWHITE WIP6770 ISlANI>~ 12 WI1H NUMEROUS STOPS ON THE WAY FOR HAIRCUTS. MARK ELLEN REPORTS. The Midge Ure story-one he thrashing round the clubs laughingly describes as "a churning out ambitious covers of journey from obscurity to Bowie's "Cracked Actor" and stardom and back to obscurity "Life On Mars' (imagine that again" - began on October 10 without an orchestra), but to no 1953. avail. It was soul-destroying. Home was in Carnbuslang, a "We were like a human crumbling outpost of Glasgow, in juke-box!" a street full of condemned Almost overnight, the spotlight four-storey tenement buildings switched back to Scotland. A pair lit by flickering gas-lights. His of hawk-eyed music moguls by Dad was - and still is - a the name of Bill Martin and Phil long-distance van-driver, his Coulter, who had skilfully Mum a housewife and. amid the crafted sugary pop anthems for trickle of the stream that ran both The Bay City Rollers and beneath the tloorboards, he Kenny, were eagerly scouting faintly recalls hearing the rustle around for another bunch of of rats. wholesome, chirpy Scots lads to By the age of 14 he'd bought a fashion into teen-idols. guitar on hire purchase, formed a By this stage Salvation were "pretty ropey'' group called desperate enough to play along. Stumble along with some school "It was that or nothing," Midge friends and was entertaining reflects gloomily. They changed local scout halls on Saturday their name to Slik, ferried up a afternoons with lashings of stock of baseballshirts and With Slik in 1976. Not much money but "I wouldn't have missed it for contemporary pop. Stuff like Eric drainpipe jeans from the King's the world." Clapton, John Mayall's Road, London, lopped off their Bluesbreakers, Jeff Beck and locks and inked a contract that early Fleetwood Mac; however would supply them with songs, classic photograph which well. And in '76, when "roclc" was he always hankered "to be in a production and studio time. They seemed to sum up the whole a term usually employed to band like The Small Faces". were simply required to tum up thing. Us leaving the New describe well-heeled superstars Two-and-a-half years as an and sing and received, for their Victoria Theatre in this posing about with extremely apprentice engineer passed pains, a meagre 3% of the limousine, police holding back expensive stage sets before before he secured a place in the earnings. the crowds and everything, and acres of their adoring disciples, Scots cabaret outfit, Salvation But it worked. As a there's this one girl actually raw club-level Pop/Rock was in (who featured Kenny Hyslop in hastily-penned paperback on the clinging onto to the short supply. Sowhen the daily the drum seat, later to join band somewhat colourfully windscreen-wiper as we're papers dropped Slik like a hot Simple Minds). Fairly well observed: "Instantly driving awayl" brick, the Music Weeklies picked established north of the border, teenyboppem plunged deep into up on them. One such rag was unheard of south, Salvation were a new love affair with these Of course it didn't last. "How even to proclaim dramatically: firmly rooted in the club-circuit classy-loolcing, smooth-image could it? When you've had an "The Queens Are Dead - Long tradition that was the training new pop idols that took Britain by instant Number One and the Live The Kings!" (For "Queens" ground for bands like The Bay stonn".